A system of medicine based on the theory that diseases are curable by drugs which produce effects on the body similar to symptoms caused by the disease. In administering drugs, the theory is also held that their effect if increased by giving them in minute doses obtained by substantially diluting them.
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Homoeopathy is the name of a system of medicine introduced in the early 19th century by Samuel Hahnemann of Leipzig. It is a system founded upon the belief that drugs have the power of curing morbid conditions similar to those they have the power to excite, an old belief long ago expressed in the Latin phrase 'similia similibus curantur' (like is c... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/EH.HTM
derived from the Greek word homoios meaning similar and pathos meaning suffering, homoeopathy is an alternative medical system that treats the symptoms of a disease with minute doses of a natural substance or remedy. In larger doses, the remedy would produce the same symptoms as the disease or disorder that is being treated. Found on https://cma.asn.au/about-cma/glossary/